For many of us who have been watching the changes made in various administrative agencies the appointments by President Trump to fill the two empty positions on the NLRB is a key start in making changes in a number of over-reaching decisions during the Obama administration. With the changeover to a new General Counsel in November the transformation will be complete.
Employers have been frustrated for some time with the numerous case decisions and policies developed by the NLRB in recent years which simply micromanage the workplace. The announcement of these appointments, frankly, is a breath of fresh air after many, many years of putting up with decisions that are not only damaging to the economy, but an embarrassment in terms of the ill-founded basis for many of the opinions which were issued by the Board. We need a much more balanced viewpoint of the workplace and hopefully we are on the right path to make that a reality.